Scale attachment



(No Model.)-

L. F. ROBARE.

SCALE ATTACHMENT. No. 482,138. Patented Sept. 6, 1892.

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LOUIS F. ROBARE, OF AU SABLE FORKS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND ROBERT J. CLARK, OF OHAMPLAIN, NEIV YORK.

SCALE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,138, dated September 6, 1892.

Application, filed January 20, 1892. Serial No. 418,633. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: beam end B swings downward the said con- Be it known that I, LOUIs F. ROBARE, of tact F strikes the cross-barO, thus deadening Au Sable Forks, in the county of Essex and the noise which would otherwise occur. The State of New York, have invented a new and locking-lever E is formed with a fork E, in

5 Improved Scale Attachment, of which the folwhich is journaled a roller G, also made of lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. rubber orothersuitable material and adapted The object of the invention is to provide a to engage the top of the beam end B, so that new and improved scale attachment which is when the beam swings upward the noise is simple and durable in construction and dedeadened when the beam end comes in con- [0 signed to render the beam noiseless at the tact with the roller G.

fork. It will be seen that when the locking-lever The invention consists of contacts made of E is in the position shown in Fig. 1 and a persoft material and arranged at the contacting son or animal passes over the platform no points of the scale-beam with the fork. noise is produced at the beam end B, as the 15 The invention also consists of certain parts contacting points of the beam end B with the and details and combinations of the same, cross-bar O and the locking-lever E are of which will be fully described hereinafter, and soft material and prevent noise. then pointed out in the claims. Instead of the roller G the locking-lever E Reference is to be had to the accompanying may be of the usual construction, and in this 20 drawings, forming a part of this specification, case a contact-point F is also secured in the in which similar letters of reference indicate top of the end B, as indicated in dotted lines corresponding parts in both the figures. in Fig. 1.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improve- By thus introducing asoft inaterialbetween 7o ment as applied and with parts in section. the contacting points of the beam end of the 2 5 Fig. 2 is an end view of the locking device fork the scale is rendered noiseless at that pivoted in the fork. point.

The improvement is more especially de- Having thus described my invention, I signed for use on large scales in which the claim as new and desire to secure by Letters platform is exposed and the weighing end of Patentc the beam extends into an oifice. In scales of 1. In a scale attachment, the combination, this class and as now constructed the weighwit-hafork, of ascale-beam projecting through ing end of the beam swings between two points the fork and a locking-lever pivoted in the in the fork, so that in casea person or dog or fork and having a roller, of rubber or analoother animal passes over the platform the gous material, journaled therein, said roller 35 beam strikes, alternately, the two points of being adapted to engage the top of the beam,

the fork, thus producing a'rattling noise, to substantially as described. the great discomfort of the occupant of the 2. In a scale attachment, the combination, oflice. By the device presently to be dewithafork, of ascale-beam projectingthrough scribed the above-mentioned defect is comthe fork and provided with a contact of soft 40 pletely overcome. material on its underside and alocking-lever The scale-beam A is of the usual construcpivoted in the fork and havingaroller of rubtion and swings at its front end B between her, or analogous material, journaled therein, the cross-bar O of the fork D and the usual substantially as herein shown and described.

looking lever E, pivoted in the said fork I LOUIS F. ROBARE. 45 above the beam end B. On the under side of WVitnesses:

the end B is secured a contact F, made of rub- JAMES ROGERS,

her or other soft material, so that when the JOHN A. SMITH. 

